Sentences with phrase «few local councillors»

But after Clegg led them to a thrashing last year, they are now back in an eight - MP people carrier (with probably only four MPs after boundary changes)-- and have few local councillors.

Not exact matches

First out of the blocks to put themselves forward for the seat was Sakina Sheikh, a Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Lewisham local who was only elected as a Labour councillor just a few days ago.

[72] In local elections held in May 2012, the Lib Dems lost more than 300 councillors, leaving them with fewer than 3000 for the first time in the party's history.

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

Few «backbench» local councillors have been consulted or involved in the signing of «devo - deals».

A few months earlier, long - serving Labour member and local councillor Philip Glanville was elected mayor of Hackney after getting the backing of the local Momentum group.

Only a few of those 42 buildings were architectural gems, but collectively they added up to an idea that was bigger; to the city councillors, it represented the shame of the decline of Brantford as a major manufacturing centre; to the local activists it was a part of their collective memory; to me it represented everything that was wrong in the small town mindset that would let their downtown die for a Walmart or a Tim Horton drivethrough.

This is one of very few judgments on the meaning of ss 27 and 28 of the Localism Act 2011 («LA 2011») relating to standards, and provides helpful guidance for local authorities on the scope of their powers to investigate allegations of Councillor misconduct.